LTA hands elite role to charismatic Connors

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It is unclear what long-term impact the former champion will have on British tennis

JIMMY CONNORS looked terrifically lean and spoke from the heart as he always has — words of conviction made all the more hypnotic because his eyes never strayed once the question was asked until he had completed his answer.

Yet there were a couple of posers left hanging over the LTA yesterday, of which no one could get to the bottom. As in what for and how much? Other than a week’s trial commentating for the BBC during the second week of Wimbledon next summer, what has the former world No 1 and eight-time grand-slam champion committed to in an